Maybe just stick a few in Dallas and call it a day. On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 02:18 +1100, Whisper wrote: > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I think Valve are kicking themselves just as much as we are kicking them > > Yes, the complete lack of planing was total cock up of mammoth proportions, > but I guess the money generated from in game ads can now be spent on a > distributed STEAM server system, much like the STEAM Content system which > has finally come to fulfil most of its promise. > > The real pity is nobody at Valve seems to have had the 20-20 hindsight to > foresee this obvious eventuality, but I bet it gets fixed, sooner rather > than later now that Valve are quickly becoming one of the worlds dominant > Games Software publishers, and not merely a Game Software developer anymore. > > Put some distributed servers that replicates the entire STEAM system, with > say, 1 in Seattle, 1 in Chicago, 1 in NewYork (Probably New Jersey > actually), 1 in Germany and 1 in Australia or Japan (I'd pick Australia > since it doesn't suffer from major Earthquakes and its in the Southern > Hemisphere with a stable government :) ) > > Join them all up with either some leased lines or encrypted internet > tunnels, fully meshed of course, and you have yourself a redundant STEAM > network. > > And we are done. :) > > On 12/18/06, Cc2iscooL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -- > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > I'd just like you to realize that some of us are game server providers. I > > don't know if you are or if you just have a server box for yourself, but > > when our servers go down, our clients get angry. I could have given them a > > link to the Steam forums to show them that, but do they really care? No, > > not > > really. All they ask is "Why is my server down and I want a refund for the > > time that it's down," which obviously we can't control if Valve's servers > > are down. > > > > So saying "Take your ass outside and do something" when you have 30 people > > emailing you trying to get a time refund out of you because the Valve > > servers are down isn't really an option. Out of those 30 I still have 5 or > > 6 > > trying to get money out of me for the downtime, and I really don't plan to > > give it to them because I told them the circumstances and they really > > didn't > > care. The clients who understood and were patient had my thanks. > > > > Valve could have at least had a redundant setup somewhere else. A > > secondary > > set of servers in another location in case of a failure would have been > > nice. You have to anticipate the unforseen. For instance, I have a > > webserver. Recently, the main hard drive actually failed on me. Had I not > > had a backup drive with daily backups I would never have recovered > > anything, > > and all of my clients would have been without their websites unless they > > had > > made a backup themselves. Paying the extra money for that hard drive was > > worth more than losing all the clients on the web box. A hard drive is > > obviously much cheaper than a server, but I'm only a small > > operation...scale > > to Valve. > > > > On 12/17/06, Kevin H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > People need to read the steam forums. And not make judgements, with > > > out the facts. > > > > > > Having a huge storm with very high winds which knocked out power to > > > most of the area where valve is located is not there fault. Its a > > > natural disaster. > > > > > > Backup systems last only so long. And if the network goes out also. > > > Not much you can do about that either. > > > > > > Here's an idea, take your ass outside and do something with friends or > > > family for a change and stop bitching over something that no one has > > > any control over. > > > > > > On 12/15/06, Svensk Ljud & Ljus Produktion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > How will Valve react on this ? > > > > > > > > Is Steam not responsible for theirs acts ? > > > > > > > > Peter Lindblom > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >
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